Sunday, July 31, 2011

Ben had his 6th birthday party this afternoon. And we had a blast! The kids played in the pool, the slip n slide, twister was a bust, but the bounce house was a winner. It took over an hour to fill 300 water balloons and about 10 minutes for them ALL to be destroyed. We didn't even have time to play games with them.

Ben had a great time though, and that's what matters. A huge thanks to Dave and Nikki who stuck around and helped out. THANKS GUYS! Yall are pretty gravy!

Monday, July 25, 2011

I was adjusting some settings on my camera today -- and I realized I have a Serious model and a Silly model. It really should've been no surprise. Every time Ben is in front of the lens he starts his silly faces and hand gestures, while Cloudy just looks at me or away from me! And get two of them in the same shot ~ impossible.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Thursday I took the boys out to start our weekend camping. First they locked me out of the truck. Then they locked me out of the camper when it was raining! Good thing they didn't lock me out of the boat (har har har).

We had a great Thursday and Friday morning. THEN - Ben and I became I.L.L! We would've loved to have come home - only there was never a good hour of non-illness to even drive to the house - much less pack stuff up. Saturday morning we thought we were feeling better, but it was just a thought. We quickly headed home and Ben and I had a marathon of t.v.

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Cuteness: When Cloudy has a booboo -- he makes the kissing sound (*muah muah*) and wants you to kiss his booboo, usually it's to me. Today he bit his tongue and trying to discourage the crying (since there was no bleeding involved) I told him to go show his daddy. He walked up to Pete and said *muah muah*, unknowing of the booboo Pete puckered up and Cloudy simultaneously stuck out his tongue! (I'm crying I'm laughing so much!)

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011

I ask Cloudy if he would like to ski every time we go out. I'm trying to have him ride the board up and down the beach like Ben used to. But 90% of the time Cloudy tells me no. Today we spent the day at the lake and when the Kendall family arrived Cloudy grabbed Dave, pointed to the ski and said "ski"... Dave dutifully pulled him around on the ski. *it made my heart melt* I later talked Wes into "skiing the sand". But i got moving to fast and when i stopped Wes tumbled forward. He was a trooper about it, but it might be awhile bf I talk him into skiing again. Then later - Ben pulled off a couple deep water starts holding the handle (it's usually attached to his ski). What a day!!